polar bear

English

A polar bear

Noun

polar bear (plural polar bears)

A very large bear, Ursus maritimus found in the Arctic Circle, white in appearance and very furry.

Synonyms

(large bear in Arctic Circle): arctic bear, ice bear, northern bear, sea bear, white bear, Ursus maritimus, Thalarctos maritimus

Derived terms

Translations

Ursus maritimus

Amharic: የበሮዶ ድብ (yäbärodo db)
Arabic: دُبّ أَبْيَض‎ m (dubb ʾabyaḍ), دُبَّة بَيْضَاء‎ f (dubba(t) bayḍāʾ), دُبّ قُطْبِيّ‎ m (dubb quṭbiyy), دُبَّة قُطْبِيَّة‎ f (dubba(t) quṭbiyya)
Armenian: սպիտակ արջ (spitak arǰ)
Assamese: বগা ভালুক (boga bhaluk)
Azerbaijani: ağ ayı (az)
Basque: hartz zuri
Belarusian: белы мядзведзь m (bély mjadzvédz’)
Breton: arzh gwenn (br) m
Bulgarian: бяла мечка f (bjála méčka), полярна мечка f (poljárna méčka)
Burmese: ဝင်ရိုးစွန်းဝက်ဝံ (wang-rui:cwan:wak-wam)
Catalan: ós polar (ca) m, ós blanc (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏲᎾ ᎤᏁᎦ (yona unega)
Cheyenne: vóhpenáhkohe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 北極熊 (zh), 北极熊 (zh) (Běijíxióng), 白熊 (zh) (báixióng)
Chukchi: умӄы (umqy)
Cornish: ors gwynn m
Cree: ᐧᐋᐸᔅᒄ (yaapaskw)
Czech: lední medvěd, medvěd lední (cs), polární medvěd m
Danish: isbjørn (da) c
Dutch: ijsbeer (nl) m
Esperanto: blanka urso
Estonian: jääkaru
Faroese: hvítabjørn f
Finnish: jääkarhu (fi)
French: ours blanc (fr) m, ours polaire (fr) m
Georgian: თეთრი დათვი (tetri datvi)
German: Eisbär (de) m, Polarbär (de) m
Greek: πολική αρκούδα (el) f (polikí arkoúda)
Greenlandic: nanoq (kl)
Gujarati: ધ્રુવીય રીંછ (dhruvīy rī̃ch)
Hawaiian: nanuka
Hebrew: דוב הקוטב‎ m (dov ha-kotev)
Hindi: ध्रुवीय भालू m (dhruvīy bhālū)
Hungarian: jegesmedve (hu)
Icelandic: ísbjörn (is), hvítabjörn (is)
Ido: urso blanka (io)
Inari Sami: jieŋâkuobžâ
Indonesian: beruang kutub (id)
Inuktitut: ᓇᓄᖅ (iu) (nanuq), nanuq (iu)
Inupiak: nanuq
Inuvialuktun: nanuq

Irish: béar bán m
Italian: orso polare m, orso bianco m
Japanese: ホッキョクグマ (ja) (Hokkyoku-guma) (北極熊 (ja)), シロクマ (shirokuma) (白熊)
Kalmyk: цаһан аю (tsahan ayu)
Kazakh: ақ аю (aq ayw)
Korean: 흰곰 (huin-gom), 북극곰 (Bukgeukgom)
Koyukon: taah kʼetlaaghozeʼ
Lakota: matȟóska
Lithuanian: baltasis lokys
Luxembourgish: Äisbier (lb) m, Polarbier (lb) m
Malay: beruang kutub
Maori: pea huka
Mongolian: цагаан баавгай (tsagaan baavgaj)
Nahuatl: ātlācamāyeh
Navajo: shash łigaígíí
Norman: blianc-ours m
Northern Sami: jiekŋaguovža
Norwegian: isbjørn (no) m
Polish: niedźwiedź polarny (pl) m, niedźwiedź biały (pl) m
Portuguese: urso-polar m, urso-branco m
Quechua: yuraq ukumari
Romanian: urs polar (ro) m, urs alb (ro) m
Russian: бе́лый медве́дь (ru) m (bélyj medvédʹ), поля́рный медве́дь m (poljárnyj medvédʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сјеверни медвјед/северни медвед, бијели медвјед/бели медвед, поларни медвјед m/поларни медвед m,

Latin: sjeverni medvjed/severni medved, bijeli medvjed/beli medved, polarni medvjed m/polarni medved m
Slovene: polarni medved (sl) m, beli medved m
Spanish: oso polar m, oso blanco m
Swahili: dubu barafu
Swedish: isbjörn (sv) c
Tamil: துருவக் கரடி (turuvak karaṭi)
Thai: หมีขั้วโลก (th) (mǐi-kûua-lôok), หมีขาว (th) (mǐi-kǎao)
Tibetan: བྱང་སྣེའི་དོམ་དཀར། (byang sne'i dom dkar)
Tsimshian: mooksgm'ol
Turkish: kutup ayısı (tr)
Ukrainian: білий ведмідь m (bílyj vedmíd’)
Urdu: قطبی بھالو‎ m (qutbī bhālū)
Vietnamese: gấu trắng Bắc Cực, gấu Bắc Cực, gấu trắng
Welsh: arth wen (cy) f, arth y gogledd f
West Frisian: iisbear c
Yup'ik: arlunaq, nanuaq

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